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		<title>glass houses and safe danger</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/11/15/glass-houses-and-safe-danger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for something to do Sunday morning, we decided to drive west of the city to the sleepy little town of Plano, IL to visit one of the most famous works of modern residential architecture from the 20th century. Tucked amidst sparse trees beside the cold black rush of the Fox River in autumn is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>on reading deschooling society by ivan illich</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/12/28/on-reading-deschooling-society-by-ivan-illich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ivan Illich offers both a bleak view of contemporary institutionalized society and an inspiring vision of what could be in his 1970 treatise Deschooling Society. &#8220;Good radical stuff,&#8221; notes the Observer in its cover accolade. Indeed it is radical in the best and truest sense of the word as defined below: Radical. adj. Arising from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>only the cool boys like pink!</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/12/14/only-the-cool-boys-like-pink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pink, blue, purple, green&#8211;aren&#8217;t these all just colors, beautiful colors of our world?! I really don&#8217;t understand why people associate colors, or anything else for that matter, so completely with one gender or the other. Why can&#8217;t a boy get a purple folder? Why can&#8217;t a girl get a plastic frog to play with? And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>fair indigo because it matters</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/09/02/fair-indigo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I received an exciting package in the mail. The package was some new clothes. Whoo-hoo! :) I know you&#8217;re thinking, &#8220;what&#8217;s the big deal? It&#8217;s just some mail ordered clothes&#8211;we all order things online to get shipped to our houses nowadays.&#8221; But, it&#8217;s not so much the actual items that I&#8217;m excited about (although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>oppressor and victim, victim and murderer?</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/08/20/oppressor-and-victim-victim-and-murderer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paradise Now directed by Hany Abu-Assad is the kind of film that reminds one that the story we hear in western media is but one story, and an aggregate political one at that. It is not the story of individuals&#8211;of the people living in the midst of daily conflict, of occupation, oppression, and fear. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>palindrome: same story, different perspective</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/07/17/palindrome-same-story-different-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, this little bit has been floating around the YouTube/e-mail universe for a while, but it just recently found me, so I thought I would share in the event there are others living under rocks like myself ;-) We create the world we see. We must see alternatives.]]></description>
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		<title>south dakota legislators: the stupidest people on earth?</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/03/01/south-dakota-legislators-the-stupidest-people-on-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://writing101.net/2010/03/01/south-dakota-legislators-the-stupidest-people-on-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I apologize for the argumentum ad hominem&#8211;what may seem like a logical misstep or at least an ethical lapse in the second part of the post title above, but come on! This came across the wire today. I&#8217;ve pasted it below, but you can find it&#8217;s original context at Think Progress. I couldn&#8217;t believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the fourth purpose</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/02/01/the-fourth-purpose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Taylor Gatto is scheduled to speak at this year&#8217;s InHome Conference. Gatto is a writer and speaker, an outspoken critic of compulsory education, a homeschooling advocate, and an award winning former New York public school teacher. He&#8217;s in the process of raising money to complete a documentary film entitled The Fourth Purpose. Just recently, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>software: free as in speech</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/01/30/software-free-as-in-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having been a GNU/Linux user now for over three years, I have come to really appreciate this idea of &#8220;free software,&#8221; which until just recently I did not realize is not entirely the same thing as &#8220;open source&#8221; software. Many times it is very close to the same thing, but, fundamentally, there is a difference. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>universal heathcare: a basic human right</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/08/13/universal-heathcare-a-basic-human-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I try to steer clear from discussion of politics&#8211;particularly at social or family gatherings&#8211;as I find such conversations, generally, to be in poor form. Politics run deep with people, and to engage in such debate with all but one&#8217;s closest friends&#8211;or within a context where spirited debate is welcomed, invited, or expected&#8211;often leads to rifts [...]]]></description>
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